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<h2 align="center">NEWS FLASH: Machine is now paid for!</h2>
<p align="center">See the <a
 href="../organization/accounting.php">"accounting"</a> page for
 details. This page is 
 just being left here for reference.</p>

<p><a href="../new-machine.php">Aleph</a> has been a great machine.</p>
<p>However, it's dying. Architecturally, it's out of touch, and 
performance-wise, it's so-so. More power is cheap.</p>
<p>I went out on a limb and bought some components, and have put together a new 
server at my house - currently evaluating. If everything goes the way I want it 
to, this will be a pure front-end web server - no mail, no repository, perhaps 
not even report generation. But it needs to be running.</p>
<p>Buying a new cabinet, motherboard, CD-ROM, AMD Athlon 3200 processor and 1 GB 
RAM set me back NOK 5.072 (USD 822, EUR 615). I had a spare disk lying around. 
No floppy needed!</p>
<p>The resulting host is called &quot;gimel&quot; (the letter after aleph and beth), and 
seems snappy - but it's taking its time to finish its configuration (of course).</p>
<p>The cost of this machine was NOK 5.072 (approximately USD 822, EUR 615). I 
would like to ask the Linux Counter user community for help to cover this cost. 
Thank-you notes for money received will be added to the
<a href="../organization/accounting.php">accounting page</a>.</p>
<p>Contributions can be sent via PayPal or MoneyBookers to my account 
<?php print emailCloaking("harald@alvestrand.no")?>. Ten to twenty dollars 
would be a reasonable contribution - I'll put a &quot;please stop&quot; note on this page 
once the cost has been recovered; I don't want to try to make money from this 
effort!
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